[ti:State Hospital (Explicit)]
[ar:Frightened Rabbit]
[al:Pedestrian Verse]
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[00:00.63]State Hospital (Explicit) - Frightened Rabbit
[00:01.93]
[00:17.55]The half back flip
[00:19.00]
[00:19.83]Conception a state hospital birth
[00:25.76]The most threadbare
[00:27.34]
[00:27.90]Tall story the country's ever heard
[00:34.46]Brought home
[00:36.18]To breathe
[00:36.94]Smoke in the arms of her mother
[00:39.26]
[00:39.78]With a blunt kitchen knife
[00:42.55]Who just lays in a submissive position
[00:45.42]
[00:45.99]Beneath the national weight
[00:48.02]And the slow arc of a fist
[00:51.02]
[00:51.95]Her heart beats like a
[00:53.47]Breeze block thrown down the stairs
[00:57.46]
[01:00.23]Her blood is thicker than concrete
[01:02.74]Forced to be brave she was
[01:05.60]Born into a grave
[01:08.79]
[01:24.24]And in the limp three years
[01:26.21]Of board schooling
[01:27.49]She's accustomed to
[01:28.99]Hearing that she could never run far
[01:32.59]A slipped disc in the spine of community
[01:35.53]
[01:36.19]A bloody curse word made pedestrian verse
[01:41.10]Spirits in graveyards and fingers in car parks
[01:44.41]She cries in the high street just to be heard
[01:49.28]A screaming anchor for nothing in particular
[01:52.57]At the foot of the f**k of it
[01:54.99]And dragging her heels in the dirt
[01:57.68]
[01:58.54]Her heart beats like a breeze block
[02:01.19]Thrown down the stairs
[02:04.58]
[02:07.11]Her blood is thicker than concrete
[02:08.99]
[02:09.52]Forced to be brave she was
[02:12.49]Born into a grave
[02:15.82]
[02:26.90]The cheek of youth flushed
[02:28.38]Red and turned gray
[02:30.17]Now she lies on the pavement
[02:32.53]She's helped to her feet
[02:35.03]
[02:35.67]All thighs hair and magpie handbags
[02:39.04]Saturday's uniform for the f**k me parade
[02:43.71]Brought home
[02:45.65]To keep
[02:46.30]Warm in the arms of a plumber
[02:48.72]
[02:49.29]Ruddy and balding
[02:51.96]Who just needs
[02:53.33]A spine to dig into
[02:55.54]A chest for the head
[02:57.30]And a hand for the holding
[03:00.04]
[03:01.39]Her heart beats like a breeze
[03:03.23]Block thrown down the stairs
[03:07.49]
[03:09.74]Her blood is thicker than concrete
[03:12.31]Forced to be brave she was
[03:15.65]She was
[03:16.88]
[03:34.60]Her heart beats like a breeze
[03:36.54]Block thrown down the stairs
[03:41.30]
[03:43.06]Her skin is thicker than concrete
[03:45.60]Forced to be brave she was
[03:48.65]
[03:49.16]She was
[03:50.52]
[03:51.48]A broken elevator anthem held between floors
[03:57.56]
[03:59.65]But if blood is thicker than concrete
[04:02.11]All of it is not lost
[04:04.92]All is not lost
[04:09.07]All is not lost
[04:13.36]All is not lost
[04:18.00]
[04:22.12]All is not lost